Creating an active page within a channel

Question

I need some advise about the best way to achieve this.

My site is set up with a Channel called 'Product' for example.

I then have entries within this section

• Product A
• Product B
• Product C

Only one of these products will be active at once.

All links on the site for 'Product' will need to link to the active product page (A, B or C).

The way I'm thinking of doing this is having a lightswitch on the Product pages to state which is the current (active) one.

I can't get my head around how this might work at the moment so any advise would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

I would create a single template that is displayed when you visit /product and set entry to be the first entry in the Product channel that is live.

{% set entry = craft.entries.section('products').status('live').first() %}

All you need to do then is disabled all product entries apart from the product you want to display.

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UPDATE: To avoid duplicate content or different content on the /product page you could redirect to the current product entry page /products/product-a using

{% redirect entry.url %}